Listen A Novel
Listen A Novel by Sacha Bronwasser, published by Penguin Group on November 11, 2025, is a 240-page work presented in English. This novel unfolds a twisty, slow-burn mystery set against the backdrop of Paris and the Netherlands. It follows twenty-year-old Marie, who leaves her prestigious art program to work as an au pair in Paris. Years later, during the 2015 attacks, she recognizes her former teacher in a distressing context, prompting her to confront unresolved questions from her past.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of memory, identity, and the complexities of human connections. Told through alternating voices, the story delves into the nuances of coincidence and fate, as well as the interplay between remembering and recording experiences. With elements of mystery and suspense, this edition invites readers to reflect on the boundaries of personal history and the impact of past choices.
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A twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation
In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris—even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she’d been reckoning with in school.
But years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognize her former teacher, the main reason she fled the Netherlands, pictured in aftermath, in the exact arrondissement where her previous employers live. The past she was sure she could leave behind comes flooding back, as do the questions she thought she could live with leaving unanswered.
Told in alternating voices, this “highly ingenious” (NRC) coming-of-age story asks important and haunting questiosn about the thin line between rememberign and recording, seeing and being seen, coincidence and fate, revenge and reclamation—and what it means to walk this boundary.
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